{"id":1778,"date":"2013-02-13T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2013-02-13T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T20:56:34","slug":"charts-10-february-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 10 February 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get too comfortable. \u00a0We won&#8217;t be here long. \u00a0The singles market remains weirdly moribund as we head into February, with only a single new entry on this week&#8217;s chart. \u00a0We\u00a0<em>do<\/em> have some big climbers, but in terms of actual new records, you&#8217;ll have Fall Out Boy or you&#8217;ll have nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fY0oPg1h8fQ\" target=\"_blank\">40. \u00a0Jake Bugg &#8211; &#8220;Lightning Bolt&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1cQh1ccqu8M\" target=\"_blank\">38. \u00a0Nickelback &#8211; &#8220;How You Remind Me&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGPeNN9S0Fg\" target=\"_blank\">36. \u00a0One Direction &#8211; &#8220;Little Things&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cjVQ36NhbMk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>30. \u00a0The Fray &#8211; &#8220;How To Save A Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0<em>something&#8217;s<\/em> got to replace the records dropping out of the charts, we have a few re-entries down at the bottom. \u00a0Jake Bugg was still floating around just outside the top 40. \u00a0&#8220;Little Things&#8221; is probably here because it was used on\u00a0<em>Dancing on Ice<\/em> last weekend. \u00a0I&#8217;ve no clue what the others are doing here. \u00a0The Fray made number 4 with this single six years ago; Nickleback&#8217;s &#8220;How You Remind Me&#8221; dates back to 2002. \u00a0Something has suddenly made them pick up sales again but I honestly don&#8217;t know what. \u00a0Any suggestions, let us know in the comments thread.<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->12. \u00a0Little Mix &#8211; &#8220;Change Your Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifRoMGG8Wvs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And breathe out.<\/p>\n<p>When this entered at number 36, the group can&#8217;t have been thrilled; when it showed up the week after at 31, they should have been downright worried. \u00a0But at last, it leaps 19 places up the chart. \u00a0This coincides with the release of the proper video, so perhaps Little Mix fans spend a lot of time watching the music channels and not so much listening to the radio.<\/p>\n<p>The video naturally plays up the &#8220;ordinary girls who won\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> and became pop stars&#8221; angle, though there&#8217;s still a nagging voice at the back of my head saying that if you&#8217;re going to do songs like this, you really do have to make the top ten with them. \u00a0There&#8217;s something a little bit presumptuous about songs like this that&#8217;s exposed if they don&#8217;t actually do well &#8211; from the look of the midweek chart, it&#8217;s going no further.<\/p>\n<p>And that &#8220;Become what you&#8217;ve always known&#8221; line is still dire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/D1gl46hh3sQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10. \u00a0Dizzee Rascal &#8211; &#8220;Bassline Junkie&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally making the top ten after over a month on sale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Fall Out Boy &#8211; &#8220;My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HsfY8iFbYjE?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often that you can compare Fall Out Boy to David Bowie, but they do have one thing in common here: they both suddenly announced a comeback single out of nowhere, and saw it sail into the top ten. \u00a0Fall Out Boy had eight hits between 2006-8 but haven&#8217;t done anything as a group since then &#8211; nor have any of their solo projects registered on the singles chart. \u00a0Their biggest UK hit was <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GNm5drtAQXs\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;This Ain&#8217;t A Scene, It&#8217;s An Arms Race&#8221;<\/a>, which made number 2; this one is their second-biggest.<\/p>\n<p>Fall Out Boy have often given the impression that they start with the track listing and work back from there. \u00a0Other singles have included\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ew6x6sHiFaw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More &#8216;Touch Me'&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onzL0EM1pKY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Thnks fr th Mmrs&#8221;<\/a> and (no, really) <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FAgbZdrWiN4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Like A Lawyer With The Way I&#8217;m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me &amp; You)&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0This one isn&#8217;t quite so knowingly quirky as those, but it&#8217;s still feels like they&#8217;ve come up with a great title and then padded out the rest of the lyrics with assorted vaguenesses along the same general theme. \u00a0On the other hand, it&#8217;s got a great chorus, and being a nicely radio-friendly single in a quiet week, it should probably be no surprise that it&#8217;s done this well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OHX_PA25Ok\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>4. \u00a0Emeli Sande &#8211; &#8220;Clown&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s a quiet week, let&#8217;s note that this one&#8217;s also been a slow burner &#8211; it&#8217;s been hanging around since just before Christmas, but it&#8217;s kept scaling. \u00a0Now it finally clambers from the bottom end of the top 10 &#8211; possibly because an EP has been released with a live version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FTwCgK-zTEs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2. Disclosure (featuring AlunaGeorge) &#8211; &#8220;White Noise&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from 28 now that it&#8217;s got a full seven days of sales (it was a midweek release last week). \u00a0Their previous single is still hanging in at the bottom end of the top 40, so their chart career is off to a pretty stellar start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis (featuring Wanz) &#8211; &#8220;Thrift Shop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QK8mJJJvaes?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing to the top in its third week on the chart. \u00a0And while it&#8217;s hardly another &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221;, this track is turning out to be another example of how very unlikely singles can sometimes break out in the digital era, without anyone really trying to promote them in this country. \u00a0It&#8217;s self-released (though he does have a distribution deal in the US), it floated around in total obscurity for the first few months on release, but now it&#8217;s suddenly gone viral and reached number one in seven countries. \u00a0Whether you like the record or not, the very fact that that can happen is something to be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the albums chart:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>The\u00a0<em>Les Miserables<\/em><\/strong> <strong>soundtrack<\/strong> is still at number 1.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Anna&#8221; by the Courteeners\u00a0<\/strong>at number 6. \u00a0Third album for the Manchester indie band, all of which made the top 10. \u00a0(It&#8217;s going to plummet next week, though &#8211; the midweeks have it at 33.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pedestrian Verse&#8221; by Frightened Rabbit<\/strong> at number 9. \u00a0For some reason the only time I ever see these guys is when they crop up on BBC Scotland&#8217;s Hogmanay show to bring a little angst to the proceedings. \u00a0Their last album only made 61, so this is a definite commercial breakout for them, even if it plunges next week. \u00a0(And it will &#8211; it&#8217;s not even\u00a0<em>on\u00a0<\/em>the midweek chart.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Romantique&#8221; by Richard Clayderman<\/strong> at number 13. \u00a0In times of financial hardship, people need easy listening piano.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wonderful Glorious&#8221; by the Eels\u00a0<\/strong>at number 14. \u00a0Their first album in three years, and actually their highest chart placing since &#8220;Souljacker&#8221; back in 2001 (though not by much).<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Centre Stage&#8221; by Kimberley Walsh<\/strong> at number 18. \u00a0Girls Aloud member makes a solo album of West End standards. \u00a0An odd thing to have out alongside the group&#8217;s reunion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A Moving Picture&#8221; by Devlin<\/strong> at number 19. \u00a0Probably more of a singles artist. \u00a0His debut made number 21, so this is a minor improvement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;In Time&#8221; by The Mavericks<\/strong> at number 37. \u00a0The country band are best (let&#8217;s be honest, almost entirely) known in the UK for their 1998 hit &#8220;Dance The Night Away&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get too comfortable. \u00a0We won&#8217;t be here long. \u00a0The singles market remains weirdly moribund as we head into February, with only a single new entry on this week&#8217;s chart. \u00a0We\u00a0do have some big climbers, but in terms of actual new records, you&#8217;ll have Fall Out Boy or you&#8217;ll have nothing. 40. \u00a0Jake Bugg &#8211; 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